Departing during its seventh and final year in 1994, The Next Generation (TNG) cast made television and cinema history as the crew of the Enterprise-D wrapped on a television stage one day and began shooting upon a movie set the next. Speculation about Star Trek: Generations culminated in the circulation of bootleg (and highly illegal) copies of the shooting script. Meanwhile, tensions ran high over the worst-kept secret in the Galaxy: namely, the death of Captain James T. Kirk, a “fact” William Shatner capitalized upon in his second autobiography when he hinted that Kirk's death might not be so final after all (Shatner, 1994).